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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 56m

Here's one of our favourite entries from A Year of Living Curiously.

A joyfully random almanac with a curious shot of knowledge for every day of the year. Out now in paperback 🐟

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 6h

'The storyline is tinged with melancholia, but the peerless wordsmithing makes it unputdownable.’ Country Life

Bestselling author John Banville is back this autumn with Venetian Vespers, out now in hardback, ebook and audiobook ❄️

linktr.ee/venetianvesp...

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you for following along today as we celebrated The Poems of Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue, with Matthew Hollis. We’ll sign off with a photo of Seamus Heaney reading from North.

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 23h

‘Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I'll dig with it.'

Listen to Jarvis Cocker read ‘Digging’
youtube.com/watch?v=KRgyIWYMy8g

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Here is an extract from Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy, displayed in Dublin with an extract from Victoria Adukwei Bulley as part of our recent Poetry Underlined campaign:

See more about the campaign here: faber.co.uk/journal/poetry-underlined-duncan-montgomery-on-the-campaign-design/

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to an archive episode of Desert Island Discs, where Seamus Heaney chooses as his book, Ulysses and as his luxury, Doc Marten boots. bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009mdcy

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Seamus Heaney

Sue Lawley's castaway is Oxford Professor of Poetry Seamus Heaney

bbc.co.uk

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 1d

'Berkeley swings like a swing-boat, has all the colour of the fairground and as much incense burning as a high altar in the Vatican.'

From the archive: Seamus Heaney writes to Rosemary Goad at Faber from Berkeley, California in September 1970

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 1d

‘Masons, when they start upon a building,
Are careful to test out the scaffolding.’

Listen to Seamus Heaney read ‘Scaffolding’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNYB...

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 1d

'Heaney's collected works reveal his colossal achievement... This book is a landmark.' The Guardian

The long-awaited Poems of Seamus Heaney is out now:
faber.co.uk/product/9780571340385-the-poems-of-seamus-heaney/

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 1d

From the Archive. Seamus Heaney writes to Faber editor Charles Monteith in May 1965 with a ‘selection of poems for your consideration.’ This selection of poems would become the groundbreaking collection, Death of a Naturalist.

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 1d

The Poems of Seamus Heaney encompasses twelve single volumes and the many uncollected poems Heaney published, as well as a selection of previously unpublished material chosen by the poet's family.

Which is your favourite poem or collection?

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Today we are celebrating the publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney, the long-awaited, definitive edition of Heaney’s poetry.

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re in Dallas, San Francisco or Boston, Eimear McBride will be on tour throughout October.

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 2d

We are so pleased that Ishion Hutchinson’s School of Instructions has won the Rilke Prize for Poetry.

english.unt.edu/creative-writing/unt-rilke-prize.html

UNT Rilke Prize

The UNT Rilke Prize awards $10,000 to a collection that demonstrates exceptional artistry and vision written by a mid-career poet and published in the preceding year. The prize is named after the…

english.unt.edu

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Join Waterstones Sauchiehall Street and Andrew O’Hagan on 16 October to celebrate On Friendship, a gorgeous personal reflection on friendship through music and poetry, memory and history.

eventbrite.co.uk/e/andrew-ohagan-on-friendship-glasgow-sauchiehall-st-tickets-1706868412369

Andrew O'Hagan: On Friendship - Glasgow Sauchiehall St

Andrew O'Hagan discusses his new book On Friendship

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 2d

On Tuesday, October 14, celebrate the publication of the revised and expanded edition of Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records at Walthamstow Trades Hall.

eventbrite.co.uk/e/shadowplayers-the-rise-and-fall-of-factory-records-tickets-1727898022499

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Over on the Faber Journal you can read an extract from The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits, now on the shortlist for the Booker Prize 2025 ✨

Read an Extract from The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits

Read an extract from the 2025 Booker Prize-shortlisted book, from Part III as Tom Layward reaches LA on his road trip.

www.faber.co.uk

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 2d

First look images from Jack Thorne's adaptation of Lord of the Flies are here. From the writer and co-creator of Adolescence, the series has been filmed on location in Malaysia with many of the cast making their professional acting debuts.

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

First look images for Jack Thorne’s adaptation of Lord of the Flies revealed

New images show the young cast, many of them making their professional acting debuts, filming on location in Malaysia

www.bbc.co.uk

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 2d

'A paean to the joys and power of friendship.' New Statesman

From Andrew O'Hagan, bestselling author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road, comes a heart-enriching celebration of what makes us great: our friends. On Friendship is out now.

faber.co.uk/product/9780571397471-on-friendship/

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Q: Will you tell us a shop secret?
A: Someone genuinely traffic-stopping-famous has so far made the single biggest donation to our pay-it-forward fund – we’ll never tell who!

Lala Books is our Independent Bookshop of the Month.

faber.co.uk/journal/independent-bookshop-of-the-month-lala-books/

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3d

'You've never read anything like this.' Julia Armfield

Our new signed hardback editions of cult classics Penance and Boy Parts by Eliza Clark, exclusive to independent bookshops and the Faber website, are out now 🔥📸

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3d

'Our sense of enchantment is not only sparked by grand things. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time. It is transformed by our deliberate attention. The magic is of our own conjuring.'

Enchantment by Katherine May is out today in a new starry-night sky paperback edition ✨

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3d

'This book makes me smile every day.' Fearne Cotton

Why is a heart not heart-shaped? Will I ever understand cryptocurrency? What am I doing when I apricate? And is everything getting worse . . ?

A Year of Living Curiously: 365 Things Really Worth Knowing is out now in paperback 🍁 🐟 🍍

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3d

'Both timely and vital.' Diane Abbott, Guardian

The Big Payback: The Case for Reparations for Slavery and How They Would Work by Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder is out today: linktr.ee/the_big_payback

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 3d

'Captures moments in time like nothing else.' Richard E. Grant
'Completely fascinating and inspiring. Completely addictive.' Stephen Fry
'So blissfully funny, entertaining and full of bite-sized insight'. Helen Fielding

Diaries of Note is out today ✍️
linktr.ee/diariesofnote

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